Add Binder links for examples

.binder/apt.txt

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+build-essential
+swig

.binder/postBuild

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+
+python -m pip install .[docs,examples]
+
+# Taken from https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/blob/22cd233e1932457947e9994285dc7fd4e93881e4/.binder/postBuild
+# under BSD3 license, copyright the scikit-learn contributors
+
+# This script is called in a binder context. When this script is called, we are
+# inside a git checkout of the automl/auto-sklearn repo. This script
+# generates notebooks from the auto-sklearn python examples.
+
+if [[ ! -f /.dockerenv ]]; then
+    echo "This script was written for repo2docker and is supposed to run inside a docker container."
+    echo "Exiting because this script can delete data if run outside of a docker container."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Copy content we need from the auto-sklearn repo
+TMP_CONTENT_DIR=/tmp/auto-sklearn
+mkdir -p $TMP_CONTENT_DIR
+cp -r examples .binder $TMP_CONTENT_DIR
+# delete everything in current directory including dot files and dot folders
+find . -delete
+
+# Generate notebooks and remove other files from examples folder
+GENERATED_NOTEBOOKS_DIR=examples
+cp -r $TMP_CONTENT_DIR/examples $GENERATED_NOTEBOOKS_DIR
+
+find $GENERATED_NOTEBOOKS_DIR -name 'example_*.py' -exec sphx_glr_python_to_jupyter.py '{}' +
+# Keep __init__.py and custom_metrics.py
+NON_NOTEBOOKS=$(find $GENERATED_NOTEBOOKS_DIR -type f | grep -v '\.ipynb' | grep -v 'init' | grep -v 'custom_metrics')
+rm -f $NON_NOTEBOOKS
+
+# Modify path to be consistent by the path given by sphinx-gallery
+mkdir notebooks
+mv $GENERATED_NOTEBOOKS_DIR notebooks/
+
+# Put the .binder folder back (may be useful for debugging purposes)
+mv $TMP_CONTENT_DIR/.binder .
+# Final clean up
+rm -rf $TMP_CONTENT_DIR

.binder/requirements.txt

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+-r ../requirements.txt

doc/conf.py

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 autosectionlabel_prefix_document = True
 
 # Sphinx-gallery configuration.
+
+# get current branch
+binder_branch = 'master'
+import autosklearn
+if "dev" in autosklearn.__version__:
+    binder_branch = "development"
+
 sphinx_gallery_conf = {
     # path to the examples
     'examples_dirs': '../examples',
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     #},
     'backreferences_dir': None,
     'filename_pattern': 'example.*.py$',
-    'ignore_pattern': r'custom_metrics\.py|__init__\.py'
+    'ignore_pattern': r'custom_metrics\.py|__init__\.py',
+    'binder': {
+         # Required keys
+         'org': 'automl',
+         'repo': 'auto-sklearn',
+         'branch': binder_branch,
+         'binderhub_url': 'https://mybinder.org',
+         'dependencies': ['../.binder/apt.txt', '../.binder/requirements.txt'],
+         #'filepath_prefix': '<prefix>' # A prefix to prepend to any filepaths in Binder links.
+         # Jupyter notebooks for Binder will be copied to this directory (relative to built documentation root).
+         'notebooks_dir': 'notebooks/',
+         'use_jupyter_lab': True, # Whether Binder links should start Jupyter Lab instead of the Jupyter Notebook interface.
+         },
 }
 
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.